One-way traffic

After the final battle, there is nothing to fear, and he will do his best to lead the people he knows to a happy world.

Isn't that a good thing?

"Okay~ Everything you ordered has arrived!"

Megurine Luka went up to the second floor, and this time she didn't throw anything.

Taking the things she handed him, Accelerator tasted the iced coffee she had personally brewed—it tasted pretty good.

Even the fried chicken nuggets tasted incredibly similar to those made in modern society, giving him a unique experience.

"Ah...this is wonderful! This kind of life..."

"It would be great if Kaito-nii and Naruko-nee were here too."

Who is Naruko?

"Huh? Doesn't Accelerator know?"

“Kane Naruko is another military person who is very close to everyone.”

"It's been so many days since I last saw Naruko-nee, ah, really... when can we have another family dinner?"

"Honestly, you just had something delicious, and you're already thinking about eating again."

A warm and happy atmosphere enveloped Hatsune Miku and her friends.

at this time.

"Hatsune-sama!"

The door to the Nuna Cafe was then opened.

"Lord Kaito has an urgent request, demanding that Hatsune-sama... no, demanding that all of you be dispatched immediately!"

"Eh?!"

A military soldier rushed in and hurriedly addressed the people on the second floor.

"The target location is... near Senbon Shrine, near the sacred tree 'Senbonzakura'!"

"Senbon...Sakura?"

Everyone immediately looked on in astonishment.

however.

The most astonished person was Accelerator himself.

"Could it be... what's going on?"

Chapter 851 The Fateful Moment of "Senbonzakura"

There was no time to lament the situation.

After leaving the coffee and milk parlor, Accelerator and his group headed directly to their designated location.

Although they could have used spatial teleportation to move everyone there, the soldiers who came to summon them had already arranged carriages, so the first person didn't bother with that.

Riding in a luxurious carriage, the group quickly headed to the scene.

Senbon Shrine exists as a sacred domain of this imperial capital.

"Captain!"

In just about ten minutes, the group arrived at the outermost edge of the capital city.

After getting off the vehicle, they saw countless soldiers surrounding the front of the shrine.

Standing at the very back, in charge of command, was Haito himself.

He turned around after hearing the soldier's call, and saw that Hatsune Miku and her group had arrived.

"You are here."

"Onii-sama!"

Hatsune Miku and the Kagamine siblings quickly came to his side.

"Brother Kaito, what exactly happened?"

He did not explain immediately.

Instead, after that, he simply glanced at Accelerator standing to the side.

"At six o'clock this morning, my team and I, who are specifically responsible for guarding Senbon Shrine and the sacred tree 'Senbonzakura,' arrived here to inquire with the divine messenger about the condition of the sacred tree."

"However, this is the situation we are in now."

The group was still somewhat puzzled, and then they looked towards the front of the shrine.

It wasn't very obvious at first.

However, upon closer inspection, they discovered an unusual phenomenon ahead on the road leading to the shrine.

"That is!"

It was a transparent black barrier.

This barrier is almost imperceptible unless you look closely; it's like a thin mist that completely envelops the shrine and the sacred tree.

"Why? Why is there something like this outside the shrine?"

"We don't know either. The military has tried every means possible, but they still can't break through it."

Haito looked in the direction of the barrier, a troubled expression on his face.

"Moreover, the shrine's messenger is still inside."

"Varied…"

Just then, the line ahead suddenly made a new noise.

"Captain! It looks like someone is coming from the other side of the barrier!"

Upon hearing this, everyone present turned their attention straight ahead.

Even Accelerator is the same.

On the road leading to the shrine, countless dark shadows slowly emerged from the mantle.

Those were—black maggots that seemed to appear as if they were shadows.

They wriggled, emerging from the darkness, and then slowly gathered together, forming a kind of three-dimensional entity.

It was humanoid.

Once it took on a human form, the darkness gradually faded, and people were able to see what that person truly was.

"...How...how is this possible?"

But when they finally saw the person in person, they couldn't help but gasp in surprise.

"How could this happen! That person is—!!"

A humanoid form created from a shadow.

He chuckled and concealed a paper fan in front of his mask.

Hello everyone.

Even Captain Haidou was utterly shocked at that moment.

"Divine Envoy?!"

The messenger of Senbon Shrine, who should be the most respected person in this empire.

At this moment, however, it appears here in the form of a shadow insect.

The divine messenger was dressed in a flawless white robe, but wore a strange and mysterious mask to cover his face.

To this day, no one knows what he actually looks like.

"It seems everyone has arrived."

"And this is the moment I've been waiting for, the moment when all the foolish soldiers of the Empire, like you, and those unexpected beings, gather here..."

The Kagamine twins, Hatsune Miku, and all the other soldiers were utterly shocked and couldn't believe their eyes.

Only one side can pass and the sea fight.

As the main witnesses to yesterday's events, they had long harbored doubts about the existence of someone who could get so close to the shrine and the sacred tree.

Even for Accelerator, there's still something he doesn't understand.

'...I should have already cleaned up all the filth under the tree.'

The observational skills that are the best in Academy City cannot be wrong.

There is no longer even the slightest trace of shadow power beneath "Senbonzakura". In that case, even if the divine messenger is the mastermind behind all this, he should be helpless by now.

Why would someone choose to reveal their identity at this time?

"Looking at your ridiculously stupid faces, you must have thought just a day ago that someone like me could never be your enemy, right?"

"...God's envoy, my lord..."

"A bunch of cowardly lackeys."

His tone was completely different from the gentle and kind divine messenger that everyone usually knew.

“Your empire has always built high walls around the city, making it impossible for the whole country to see anything outside. You live arrogantly in the so-called ‘ideal land’ that you have built for yourself.”

"In reality, apart from those fat fools in the upper echelons of the empire, no one should know how different the world outside the city walls is from your so-called utopia."

No one knows what he was trying to say.

However, one could sense immense resentment in his voice.

"I just want to know one thing."

Haidou frowned and shouted loudly at the divine messenger.

"Are you, or are you, a shadow?"

"...Hmph."

The divine messenger couldn't help but let out a sinister laugh.

"To still use such a low-class term as 'Shadow' at this point only shows how low your standards are."

Rumble rumble rumble ———

Then, at that moment, an incredibly powerful shockwave was transmitted to everyone.

The ground is shaking.

"I'll tell you then."

“I existed long before you created the word ‘shadow’.”

Bang——! !

Then, something took root and sprouted.

The sacred tree, "Senbonzakura," which originally radiated gentle and holy light, was completely swallowed up in that instant.

An endless darkness that seemed to emerge from nowhere.

"What you call a shadow possession is an incarnation manifested from a branch of my power."

"The Divine Tree 'Senbonzakura' is an ancient tree that has existed for an unknown period of time, since the time of the Primordial Era. It is also the hateful thing that has been restricting me all along, sealing everything about me under the yoke of this empire."

What re-emerged was an even greater entity that replaced the divine tree.

Right now.

"Master! I sense a very strange yet familiar aura!"

Reverse prime puzzle 545.

Q-Demon, who should have been completely unrelated to this world and should have been sleeping in another dimension, actually uttered these words directly into Accelerator's mind.

"A familiar aura? What do you mean?"

"It's that tree! The enormous black tree you see now, Master, gives me an incredibly familiar aura!"

Listening to what Q-Demon said in his mind, the first person vaguely sensed some troublesome aura.